Greensboro voices : voicing observations in Civil Rights and equality struggles
Oral histories documenting the Civil Rights movement in Greensboro, North Carolina.
More About This Collection
Contributor to Resource
Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro (North Carolina), Greensboro Public Library (Greensboro, N.C.)
Date of Original
1970/2002
Subject
Civil rights--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Greensboro
African Americans--North Carolina--Greensboro
African Americans--Civil rights--North Carolina--Greensboro
Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Race relations
Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
African Americans--Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
Sit-ins--North Carolina--Greensboro
Race discrimination--North Carolina--Greensboro
African American civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina--Greensboro
Location
United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
Medium
oral histories (literary works)
transcripts
Type
Sound, Text
Description
Greensboro VOICES contains transcripts of oral history interviews conducted during the late 1970s through early 1990s by the Greensboro Public Library and the University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG) Department of History, as well as a handful conducted between 1998 and 2002 by Jim Schlosser for the Greensboro News and Record. These two collections contain almost 140 interviews documenting the civil rights movement in Guilford County between the early 1950s and the early 1980s., The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.
Contributing Institution
Greensboro Public Library (Greensboro, N.C.)
University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
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